Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d492631a5f06233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2020-09-16 17:27:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01b293b79aff608bbf39a6451c3f039e SHA-1: 19cdd4809ba017a84fe312e5371bcd4c33fd4970 SHA-256: 5d492631a5f0623387a5d562405ea2f37b3fa903d7117bbbf16c0c5b9be3057b
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document contains multiple embedded links, with a primary link pointing to a redirector URL that is known to host malicious content. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for credential phishing, specifically targeting MFA or one-time codes. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are benign Shopify links, suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious redirector within a larger link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=honeywell+vista+15p+user+guide In PDF document text
    • http://files.darknight.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/53795f69a75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puxodafe.mhsrunningtribe.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482952/022ad7a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowiv.flexiblemindtherapy.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/7637596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dancinggoatsmilksoap.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482853/6224059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5799/files/organic_chemistry_bruice_8th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6292/6229/files/occupational_safety_and_health_malaysia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3302/files/pugosigusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3603/2680/files/6606027263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5094/files/58711876470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0101/1611/files/88708557551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7053/6345/files/binupamogilixakoxusugaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9862/7495/files/infrastructure_as_a_service_in_cloud_computing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1753/4629/files/fawokifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2433/4498/files/bavalevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13260 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 4e14377e5c81e0481d8700cd46c51d7a39c4eba6de0f772adfb33871a7cbaead
font_01_sfnt_off000144e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E7 10272 bytes
SHA-256: f0f4b753d3686ff2922851c1782b0ed4958e8a994ecf06118f0ae3abf7081ca0
font_02_sfnt_off0001684e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1684E 16196 bytes
SHA-256: 9a889fb1f22e22188aa82d2973589f3fa7e946ee103f4e44f61fc1d2ef93c4a9
font_03_sfnt_off00017d79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D79 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2